Axios: “Meta Has Transformed Into Full-On MAGA Hive”

January 11, 2025 Social Media, Trump cultists

They say it’s hard to turn a battleship around, but Mark Zuckerberg just about-faced his globe-spanning, $1.5 trillion-value, 3 billion-user company — transforming Meta from a bastion of Silicon Valley’s socially progressive neoliberalism into a full-on MAGA hive.

After Zuckerberg’s embrace of Trump and Trumpism, Silicon Valley is holding its breath to see whether a whole row of tech dominoes is about to fall in the same direction. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon have all lined up to give $1 million each to the Trump inauguration. Amazon put $40 million behind a Melania Trump documentary.

So far, while Meta’s competitors have ritualistically expressed their willingness to work with the new administration, none of them has gone as far as Zuckerberg in donning the corporate equivalent of a MAGA hat.

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NEW: Meta deliberately detonated its flurry of make-up-with-MAGA moves over 9 days to maximize pop for Trump, sources tell @mikeallen @JimVandeHei.

“It’s hard to break through in this media environment,” said a source. “It sends a signal.”https://t.co/O0Z386gZRR

— Axios (@axios) January 11, 2025

Meta’s MAGA pivot will be hard for Big Tech rivals to match https://t.co/3k4NJmMjH4

— Axios (@axios) January 11, 2025